Three herdsmen have been arrested for their alleged role in the attack of Bamajo village in Ayetoro, Yewa North area of Ogun State.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday said the suspects had attacked the village where they set some houses ablaze and inflicted a deep machete cut injury on one Ismaila Alabi.
“On receiving the report, the Area commander Ayetoro Assistant Commissioner of Police, Anthony Aruna mobilized his men, Hunters and youths to the scene where the entire area was thoroughly combed,” the statement partly read.
He said that the search exercise was extended to Igboaje bush where one of the herdsmen was arrested with a gun and a cutlass stained with blood.
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The Ogun State police command has arrested three suspected criminal herdsmen over “the role they played in the attack of Bamajo village in Ayetoro”, Yewa North Local Government area of Ogun State.
According to the Ogun Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, “the men had attacked the village where they set some houses ablaze and inflicted a deep matchet cut injury on one Ismaila Alabi.”
Receiving the report, the Ayetoro Area Commander, ACP Anthony Aruna, had mobilized his men, hunters and youths to the scene where the entire area was thoroughly combed.
Oyeyemi informed that the combing exercise was extended to Igboaje bush where one Musa Yusuf was apprehended with a gun and a blood-stained cutlass.